THE ARMY AND NAVY OF AMERICA: CONTAINING A VIEW OF THE HEROIC ADVENTURES, BATTLES, NAVAL ENGAGE- FROM THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS TO THE INDEPENDENT OF AN ACCOUNT of WARLIKE OPERATIONS ON LAND AND SEA; ENLIVENED BY A VARIETY OF THE MOST INTERESTING ANECDOTES; AND SPLENDIDLY EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. BY JACOB K. NEFF, M.D. "Concordiâ res parvæ crescunt, discordiâ maximæ dilabuntur." PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY J. H. PEARSOL & CO. 1845. Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by J. H. PEARSOL & CO. in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN, PHILADELPHIA. PRINTED BY J. H. PEARSOL, LANCASTER. (2) 181 گار m PREFACE. THE work now presented to the public is one of a peculiar character, and the only one that gives the reader a good idea of the battles fought in our country, unless he searches for a description of them through prosy and ponderous volumes. Too much space has hitherto been devoted to legislative proceedings, and too little to the battles. Nor is this all. The various military operations are mixed together in inextricable confusion in our ordinary histories, the same chapter often containing a number of battles. We have corrected this, and made a chapter of every battle, to set it forth clearly and distinctly, connecting only those extended operations, that were intended to aid each other. PART I.-Contains the nature of campaigns-the advance-the retreatthe encampment of armies-together with the plans of battles; military maxims, from the great generals of every age and country, illustrated by their own battles; with all the manœuvres of fleets, and war at sea. This part prepares the reader to understand warlike operations on land and sea; a kind of information, the want of which every reader of ordinary history must have felt. Such an arrangement has never been attempted before, and in this, especially, our work differs from all others; we hope to the advantage of the reader. PART II.-Gives an account of the battles of the French and Indian wars, which were of the greatest importance to our fathers. It was a struggle between France and England as to which government should rule the American continent. To our fathers it was important, not only because it would decide whether they should be ruled by the French or English, Catholics or Protestants, but it even decided whether they should at all exist as a nation. This, independent of the interesting nature of many of these forest battles, will make this part of the work of infinitely greater importance than is generally imagined. Independent of all this, the heroes of our revolution were nearly all schooled in this war. Washington himself received his first lessons of |